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Dark Forces Unofficial Specifications v3.2

ANIM LFD Resource (ANM Files)

Those LFD resources contain animations played in the cutscenes, the missions objective screens that appear in the PDA, and the game menus.

ANIMs are quite logically a collection of DELTs.

Note: the .anm extension is a convention adopted by add-on developers when writing conversion programs, there are no real ANM files in DARK FORCES.

Their format is quite simple:

ANIM_Header IS
{		
 NbDELT           int              // number of embedded DELTs
}

Then follows each DELT, encoded as:

ANIM_DELTData IS
{		
 DELTSize         long             // the size of the embedded DELT
 aDELT            bytes[n]         // a complete DELT resource
}